Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Organizational Development

The world of quality management has a problem-it's inundated with improvement techniques that, while helpful to a small minority, are of little help to most managers.

The problem, in part, is the hit-or-miss pattern whereby mangers encounter such systems. Not taught in colleges, improvement techniques usually come to managers through consultants. This is at best a scattergun approach to quality management-some managers receive enough information to benefit their organizations, while others receive insufficient information on which to act-or worse yet, try to act with incomplete and...

Organizations are often forced to change and adapt as a result of internal or external circumstances - whether the impetus is vision and ambition, a competing organization, societal pressure, or financial pressure. In this book, the authors posit that successful change requires the coherence of five elements: rationale and effect, focus and energy, and connection.

In Change Competence, they present a vision of change management centered around these five elements, along with a model and method for diagnosing, approaching, and developing change management in...

Metrics are a hot topic. Executive leadership, boards of directors, management, and customers are all asking for data-based decisions. As a result, many managers, professionals, and change agents are asked to develop metrics, but have no clear idea of how to produce meaningful ones. Wouldn't it be great to have a fast, simple explanation of how to plan for and then design measurements to improve your organization?

Planning and Designing Effective Metrics--an abridged version of author and metrics expert Martin Klubeck's Metrics: How to Improve Key...

Through interviewing executives, managers, and front line employees at companies throughout the US over the past several years, I've uncovered challenges companies (both large & small) are facing when it comes to adopting new technology and creating space for new & potentially disruptive...

The revolutionary book that teaches you how to use the cutting edge of human psychology to build high performing workplace cultures.

Too often, great cultures feel like magic. While most leaders believe culture is critical to success, few know how to build one, or sustain it over time.

What if you knew the science behind the magic--a science so predictive and powerful that you could transform your organization? What if you could use cutting edge psychology to unlock people's innate desire to innovate, experiment, and adapt? In Primed to Perform, Neel Doshi and Lindsay...

NFL head coach Mike Smith lead one of the most remarkable turnarounds in NFL history. In the season prior to his arrival in 2008, the Atlanta Falcons had a 4-12 record and the franchise had never before achieved back-to-back winning seasons. Under Smith's leadership, the Falcons earned an 11-5 record in his first season and would go on to become perennial playoff and Super Bowl contenders earning Smith AP Coach of year in 2008 and voted Coach of Year by his peers in 2008, 2010 and 2012.

You Win in the Locker Room First draws on the extraordinary experiences of Coach Mike...